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Forest Hills Volunteer EMTs Honor Young 9/11 Medic With Moto Ride
The Forest Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corps next month will host a motorcycle ride in memory of the youngest first responder killed in 9/11.
FOREST HILLS, QUEENS — The Forest Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corps next month will host its fourth annual motorcycle ride in memory of Richie Pearlman, a former corps member and the youngest first responder killed in 9/11.
The "Run for Richie" 9/11 Memorial Motorcycle Ride on Sept. 8 will honor 9/11 first responders and victims and raise money to support the Forest Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corps.
Pearlman joined the volunteer EMS group's junior corps when he was 14 and graduated to the senior corps four years later, according to the event's description.
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He was just 18 when he joined other emergency responders to aid the injured at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
The memorial ride, co-hosted by the NYC Punishers Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club, will travel from Queens' Aqueduct Racetrack to Ground Zero and back.
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The first 411 people to register to join the ride will receive a commemorative coin with the number 411, which is how many first responders died in 9/11.
More information is available on Eventbrite.
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